THE FOUNDERS

THE FOUNDERS

The name of the founders, as they appear in the 1st minute of the ‘Recreational Association in Corfu’ (previous form of the P.S. ‘Mantzaros’), on the 21st of June in 1890:

 

1. Georgios Gikas

2. Andreas Dapresas (30 years old)

3. Spyridon Papadopoulos (watchmaker, 30 years old)

4. Leonidas koeros

5. Anastasios Memos

6. Kostantinos Geromeriatis

7. Spiridon Zervos

8. Spiridon Koutsouvelis

9. Dionisios Paramithiotis (employee, 43 years old)

10. Antonios Koeros (31 years old)

11. Xenofon Stinis

12. Kostantinos Sarantopoulos (trader, 26 years old)

13. Antonios Theriogiannis

14. Georgios Dalianis

15. Iosif Demponos

16. Ioannis Mpravinos (1)

17. Georgios Skentros (1)

18. Georgios Artavanis (1)

 

According to the minutes of the general meeting of the ‘Recreational Association in Corfu’ on the 1st of July in 1890, ‘… they had to give of their own money, in order to buy music instruments…’

 

(1) Their names are mentioned on a marble stone, with the names of the founders, at the ceremony hall of the Philharmonic Society.